Report / Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957.
- Date:
- 1957
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report / Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SOME DETAILS ABOUT MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS Age of patients in designated mental hospitals Table 6 (Designated mental hospitals in the national health service) Patients admitted in 1954 Patients resident at 31.12.54 (Age on admission) (Age at that date) Age group |———— —__-___-__—___—_—_ Eee Number | Percentage of all admissions | Number! Percentage of all residents Over 75 5559 175333 fee 211-79% 65—74 8,871 #419-0% 55—64 | 11,310 31,738 Fl o1- 49, 45—54 | 13,428 30,709 FE] 20-30% 35—44 | 12,807 21,721 254-340 ts 135964 14,748 16-24 | 5,491 3,426 O—15 470 |] 0-6% 255 Not stated — 96 Total | 71,699 100% 148,080 100% eh Ke2e4 First admission to a designated mental hospital Y///, Second or subsequent admission Length of stay of patients in designated mental hospitals Early in 1955 we wished to know what proportion of the patients now being admitted to mental hospitals stay in hospital for various lengths of time. We therefore sent a questionnaire to ten mental hospitals about the patients whom they had admitted in 1952, asking how many voluntary, temporary and certified patients had been discharged or had died or were still in hospital at certain periods after their admission. This told us the length of stay for periods up to two years, but of course gave no indication of the probable total length of stay of those still in hospital at the end of two years. The hospitals from which we obtained this information were Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon ; Fair Mile Hospital, Walling- ford ; Goodmayes Hospital, Ilford ; Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge ; Prestwich Hospital, near Manchester; St. George’s Hospital, Morpeth; St. Lawrence’s Hospital, Bodmin; Warlingham Park Hospital, Croydon ; Winterton Hospital, Stockton-on-Tees ; Winwick Hospital, near Warrington. Admissions to these hospitals in 1952 totalled 6,217, just under 10 per cent. of the total admissions to designated mental hospitals in the national health service for that year. The General Register Office collects statistics about the length of stay of patients who have been discharged or have died each year. From these it is possible to ascertain the length of stay of all patients admitted to designated mental hospitals in the national health service each year who are discharged within twelve months of admission and the number remaining at the end of twelve months, but these statistics do not give as much detail as we obtained by our ques- tionnaire. More detailed information is now becoming available in the General Register Office about patients admitted to designated mental hospitals for the first time in 1954, but it will be some time before these statistics are available for the second year after admission. For these reasons, and because the information obtained by our questionnaire would not otherwise be published, we have used in 316 awe Son ar = = <n Se AL een](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32177768_0332.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
